Old school german

[Oxman]

Saw this on a flat bed in Dayton, Ohio. I was in ASI's crew van going to my hotel because I lost electrical on Sunday over KDAY. Stupid power wire to the alternator pulled off of the circle clamp at the end of the wire.

 

[inventor]

Is that just a painted experimental (home built)? Something from pre WWII?

 

[Boris Badenov]

Looks like a Fokker Eindecker to me. Scourge of the skies over WWI battlefields for a year or two before the Brits and French got their poop together. The Deutch (God bless their little square heads) figured out that shooting bullets at the prop and hoping they bounce off in the correct direction wasn't exactly the Way To Go. Although, to be fair, Fokker was Dutch. Close enough.

And yeah, it's probably a homebuilt. If it isn't, it's a dataplate attached to a homebuilt that makes it "real".

PS. Figures it's an Upper Midwesterner. That whole area of the country is crawling with squareheads. Probably humming "The Horst Wessel" song as he motors along. I'm looking at you, jtrain.

 

[ctab5060X]

Saw this on a flat bed in Dayton, Ohio. I was in ASI's crew van going to my hotel because I lost electrical on Sunday over KDAY. Stupid power wire to the alternator pulled off of the circle clamp at the end of the wire.

A Fokker Eindecker... very nice.

Reproduction, but still... good to see someone intersted in early WWI aircraft.

Few notes about the Eindecker...

First purpose built German fighter (it was a monoplane)
First fighter to have a synchronizer gear
Helped bring about the Fokker Scourge
Flown by aces such as Immelmann (killed in one) and Boelcke

 

[Polar742]

Perhaps one of these?

 

[WacoFan]

WW1 is my favorite air combat war. I want to have a full-scale DVII - not sure what I'd use for power. Pretty sure I couldn't get an original Daimler motor.

 

[Low&Slow]

...First fighter to have a synchronizer gear...

The Germans got the synchronizer/interrupter gear from a downed French Morane-Saulnier and then copied it.